I think the country has had enough Bushes.
BARBARA BUSHWell, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
More Barbara Bush Quotes
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I’m a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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One thing I can say about George… he may not be able to keep a job, but he’s not boring.
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I’m a little old-fashioned.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don’t miss it at all.
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Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It’s been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving’s better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam’s Club.
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I don’t like attacking.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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I don’t think that’s healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else’s.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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